ITS CREATIVE ARCHIVE · September 14th, 2016 “The ITS Creative Archive is a unique and valuable...

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ITS CREATIVE ARCHIVE

2002 - 2019


ITS is a global network including fashion insiders and opinion leaders, a point of reference for more

than 1,500 schools in over 80 countries.For 18 years thousands of young talents

have been sharing with us their creativity. Since the beginning we deeply understood we weren’t just dealing with projects, we were holding in our hands seeds.

Seeds of pure creativity. We decided to plant and protect them in our Archive, where they have grown into a unique collection, developing year after year all around the world of fashion and art. The Archive is the past, the present and the future of ITS.



International Talent Support was conceived as a creative platform intended to find these seeds, support their germination and allow them to blossom. The Cultural Association EVE - Creativity Research Lab created the

Archive as the real land where potential creativity blossomed, where it could be set

in motion, connecting what has been created to what will be created, endlessly.



Looking at a portfolio is like stepping into someone’s dreams and that deserves profound respect. Each seed describes the struggle to translate thoughts and emotions into something

tangible. They trace the evolution of creativity. 18,000 portfolios of which 30,000 images have been digitalised

and classified, over 220 outfits, 120 accessories, 80 jewelry pieces and more than 700 digital photography projects.




VALERIE STEELEDirector and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology

September 14th, 2016

“The ITS Creative Archive is a unique and valuable resource, because it contains looks from a range of international designers at the beginning of their careers. Works from a designer’s earliest

collections is incredibly rare, and of great interest both historically and in terms of providing inspiration to today’s fashion students. The Archive deserves financial support from the fashion

industry, in order to preserve and showcase a valuable resource.”


Valerie SteelFashion Institute of Technology, Director and Chief Curator

“The ITS archive is unique in that it holds work from multiple designers at the very start of their careers.

These early pieces are fuelled by an unfettered creativity, not yet honed to the rigorous demands of a professional career, yet already, showing clear evidence of each designer’s unique signature.

To collect work at this stage in a designer’s career is a brave decision, will the designer succeed in their chosen career, will they become a celebrated talent or will they disappear from the world of design? The ITS archive is not particularly concerned with these speculative questions because it recognises the value of capturing and recording a moment in fashion regardless of what the future may bring.

As such this archive has become a valuable record and barometer of young fashion talent in the 21st century. Happily, through the aptitude of the ITS team and their juries in identifying skilled participants, the archive is

indeed full of early work by designers who have gone on to make great careers.

Browsing through the rails of the archive one comes across so many familiar names. It is intriguing to see these early pieces, most often painstakingly made by the hand of the designer themselves and to recognise the continued development and progression of certain themes or techniques in the designer’s later work.

These are the pieces that in retrospect are so hard to find. Graduate and early collections rarely survive intact, as young designers often lack the resources to house and store the items at this transitional and tumultuous point in their lives.

For these reasons the ITS archive is a unique and intriguing collection which holds much value for current and future researchers interested in the disciplines of design education and the world of fashion.”

ORIOLE CULLENActing Senior Curator of Contemporary Fashion, Victoria & Albert Museum

November 16th, 2015


Aitor ThroupDesigner, Winner at ITS FIVE

Oriole CullenVictoria & Albert Museum, Fashion Curator

“I have been deeply impressed by the museum quality of this collection and by its numeral importance. One might think the archives of the several contestants ITS has been welcoming for years now are only the seeds of their creations to come or would only forecast the talent they will develop in the future. They would be wrong considering the maturity and achieved creativity of the pieces ITS is keeping there. It gives a unique panorama, over more than 13 years, of fashion creation in freedom - or pure Fashion creation - from contestants from every place and

every cultural background throughout the world.

Besides the clothes, I am also very attracted by the portfolios illustrating, each time a different way and with an almost infinite range of media, the genesis of each contestant’s collection. Many times I wanted to have them in my Graphic Arts Department at Galliera.

Once again, the ITS archives are absolutely unique in the world and my only regret is they don’t have an exhibition hall to show them to a larger audience as they deserve!”

LAURENT COTTAHead of Graphic Arts Department, Musée Galliera

November 12th, 2015


Laurent CottaMusée Galliera, Head of Graphic Arts Department

“The ITS Creative Archive holds a history of the recent past with fashion treasures for the future. Documenting the creative process of thousands of the most promising students in fashion, accessories, and jewelry design (15,000 at last count) from initial submissions portfolios to the finished designs of the winners, together with hundreds of digital photographic projects, the Archive is not only an encapsulation of the most prestigious jury competition of emerging designers, it is a documentation of the evolution of the most cutting-edge thinking and

creation of the best new talents globally. Because it houses the work derived from an international canvassing of the most influential design programs and institutions, the ITS Archive captures in its modest space the most directional and inventive individuals poised at the beginning of their careers. There is no other archive that does this. Only the ITS Archive crosses all institutional and international boundaries through the most rigorous editing process by a jury of the most established and recognized talents in business, arts and design.”

HAROLD KODACurator in Charge of The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

December 4th, 2015


Harold KodaThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, Former Curator of The Costume Institute

OVER 220 FASHION OUTFITS

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTAITOR THROUP AT ITS 2006

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTYANG DU AT ITS 2008

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTYUIMA NAKATZAO AT ITS 2008

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTMASON YUNG AT ITS 2009

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTMICHEAL VAN DER HAM AT ITS 2009

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTSIDERAL(ES) AT ITS 2010

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTKEVIN KRAMP AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTTAKASHI NISHIYAMA AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTICHIRO SUZUKI AT ITS 2012

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTXIAO LI AT ITS 2013

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTNELLY HOFFMANN AT ITS 2013

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTPOLINA YAKOBSON AT ITS 2013

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTHAN CHUL LEE AT ITS 2013

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTKATHERINE ROBERTS-WOOD AT ITS 2014

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTLEONIE BARTH AT ITS 2014

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTKIM SHUI AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTJENIFER THÉVENAZ-BURDET AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTPAULA KNORR AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTFLORA MIRANDA AT ITS 2016

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTOLESYA SERCHENKO AT ITS 2016

120 ACCESSORIES


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TOMASZ DONOCIK AT ITS 2008


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Benjamin Shun lai ng8 May 1979 (United Kingdom)Graduated from royal College of art

«i never experienced anything like this before. it’s great, i enjoyed a lot»

The winner of the yKK award was men’s foot-wear designer Benjamin Shun lai ng who turned a yKK zipper into shoe laces. The idea was very unexpected and unpredictable. Be-sides, the zipper actually works as a shoe lace us-ing its locking system function. How cleverly and efficiently he manipulated the functional side to work as shoe laces!

looking at his overall work for itS i highly ap-preciated it from many different angles such as creativity, originality, practicality and sophis-tication. and all these elements were well bal-anced in his collection. Fantastic and wearable shoes which i would personally want to wear. i also appreciated the great craftsmanship he demonstrated with each of his shoes.

Kei Kagami

The winner

BENJAMIN SHUN LAI NG AT ITS 2008

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTUNA BURKE AT ITS 2009

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTCHAU HAR LEE AT ITS 2009

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTROB GOODWIN AT ITS 2010

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTSARAH WILLIAMS AT ITS 2010

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTLARISZA PASZTIRCSAK AND ORSOLYA POPPRE AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTOLIVER RUUGER AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTANA RAJCEVIC AT ITS 2012

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTBENJAMIN JOHN HALL AT ITS 2012

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTPERCY LAU AT ITS 2013

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTANUK YOSEBASHVILI AT ITS 2014

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTMAIKO TAKEDA AT ITS 2014

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTISABEL HELF AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTBIANCA CHONG AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTMELANIE LEWISTON AT ITS 2016

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTLE RONI SACHELARIDI AT ITS 2016

80 JEWELRY PIECES

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTHANWEN SHEN AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTSHARON VAIZER AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTRALUCA GRADA AND SARAH VEDEL HURTIGKARL AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTXIAO ZI YANG AT ITS 2012

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTKASUMI ASHIZAWA AT ITS 2012

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTMERAV ROTH AT ITS 2012

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTMARIE CABIROU AT ITS 2013

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTRAYYA VALERIE MORCOS AT ITS 2013

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTLIOR SHULAK AT ITS 2014

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTNORIKO NAKAZATO AT ITS 2014

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTADI LEV DORI AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTIN WAI KWOK AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTYUN SUN YANG AT ITS 2015

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTSARI RATHEL AT ITS 2016

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTTATIANA LOBANOVA AT ITS 2016

79 PRINTED PHOTO PROJECTS (695 PHOTOS). MORE THAN 700 DIGITAL PHOTO PROJECTS.

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTREMIGIUSZ PYRDOL AT ITS 2006

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTLEVI VAN VELUW AT ITS 2007

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTJING QUEK AT ITS 2007

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTKAZUTAKA NAGASHIMA AT ITS 2008

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTSAANA WANG AT ITS 2009

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTMAGDALENA KMIECIK AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTNIKA KUPYROVA AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTNIKITA PIROGOV AT ITS 2011

© INTERNATIONAL TALENT SUPPORTTHOMAS ROUSSET AND RAPHAËL VERONA AT ITS 2011

I WAS HERE


Marina Abramović Performance Artist


Barbara FranchinITS Founder & Director

Valerie SteelFashion Institute of Technology, Director and Chief Curator


Floriane de Saint PierreFloriane de Saint Pierre & Associés, Eyes On Talents, Headhunter


Demna GvasaliaVetements and Balenciaga, Artistic Director, Winner at ITS THREE


Silvia Venturini FendiAltaRoma, President

Marie-Claire DaveuKering Group, Chief Sustainability Officer

Riccardo VannettiPitti Immagine, Tutorship Director

Barbara FranchinITS Founder & Director


An attraction for fashion insiders and aficionados, visited by journalists, head hunters, local visitors and tourists.

An invaluable source for both schools and students, who can browse thousands of projects spanning 5 continents and 15 years,

discovering applicants, finalists and winners from their own college. Visits to the ITS Archive become part of the education pathway.







The ITS Archive collaborates with some of the most important international museums: Victoria and Albert, MET

Costume Institute, Fashion Museum FIT, Musée Galliera.Pieces are requested and featured in important fashion

exhibitions worldwide.

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